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2 Peter 3
and we know this is a reference to Psalm 90
but even this is a reference to something even older in scripture.
Genesis 2
now we go to Genesis 5
But then if you think about it.. what is a day to God, if Adam died under 1000 years, if God sees every day as 1000 years for us.. then Adam ate from the tree and died and returned to dust on the same day (and yes God said in Genesis 3 what death would be for Adam, not spiritual, but returning to dust)
So a day to the Lord being 1000 years for us, goes all the way back to Genesis..... and extends all the way to Revelation 20.
The thousand years repeated over and over to that period as the Day of the Lord, because it is a Day by the Lord's reckoning, which can be up to 1000 years for us, because that's the scale He gave for a day in Genesis. Does that mean it has to be exactly 1000 years? No. because God gives figurative expressions for the length of time. Adam died "in" that day, within 1000 years, but died short of it by 70 years.
Revelation 20 has after the 1000 years are expired or finished, so it is at least 1000 but could be more than 1000, but probably not 2000, as that'd be 2 days, as God gives in Hosea 6:2, after 2 days (2000 years), but in the third day (year 2001-2999), the resurrection. This also applies to Jesus resurrection after Crucifixion. Jesus resurrected not 72 hours after dying, but sometime after 48 hours
So no Jesus does not have to come back exactly at 2030 or whatever those date setters will claim. If anything that's the earliest it could start... if we have an AD30 time right, and if anyone's considered how long it's been since the crucifixion in Hebrew years.
I suppose if you found someone proficient in the Hebrew Calendar who took the date of Jesus' crucifixion in regard.. you might tell how long it's been. Maybe. But that'd only indicate the earliest, not the latest.
Anyway.. all that to say.. the millennium doesn't have to exactly be 1000 years, it could be well over 1000 years, and it is all a reference to "the Day of the Lord" and the way God reckons time... based on Adam's lifespan and His promise.
anyway I'm sure it's going to all get ripped apart, but I've been meditating on this for awhile, and how statements in the bible are based on earlier statements and many of the concepts originate in Genesis. "Declaring the End from the beginning"
8 But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
and we know this is a reference to Psalm 90
4 For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.
but even this is a reference to something even older in scripture.
Genesis 2
17 But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.
now we go to Genesis 5
People think in human reckoning, that Adam ate for the tree and lived hundreds of years after so God must have meant a spiritual death that day. I used to believe that too.5 And all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years: and he died.
But then if you think about it.. what is a day to God, if Adam died under 1000 years, if God sees every day as 1000 years for us.. then Adam ate from the tree and died and returned to dust on the same day (and yes God said in Genesis 3 what death would be for Adam, not spiritual, but returning to dust)
So a day to the Lord being 1000 years for us, goes all the way back to Genesis..... and extends all the way to Revelation 20.
The thousand years repeated over and over to that period as the Day of the Lord, because it is a Day by the Lord's reckoning, which can be up to 1000 years for us, because that's the scale He gave for a day in Genesis. Does that mean it has to be exactly 1000 years? No. because God gives figurative expressions for the length of time. Adam died "in" that day, within 1000 years, but died short of it by 70 years.
Revelation 20 has after the 1000 years are expired or finished, so it is at least 1000 but could be more than 1000, but probably not 2000, as that'd be 2 days, as God gives in Hosea 6:2, after 2 days (2000 years), but in the third day (year 2001-2999), the resurrection. This also applies to Jesus resurrection after Crucifixion. Jesus resurrected not 72 hours after dying, but sometime after 48 hours
So no Jesus does not have to come back exactly at 2030 or whatever those date setters will claim. If anything that's the earliest it could start... if we have an AD30 time right, and if anyone's considered how long it's been since the crucifixion in Hebrew years.
I suppose if you found someone proficient in the Hebrew Calendar who took the date of Jesus' crucifixion in regard.. you might tell how long it's been. Maybe. But that'd only indicate the earliest, not the latest.
Anyway.. all that to say.. the millennium doesn't have to exactly be 1000 years, it could be well over 1000 years, and it is all a reference to "the Day of the Lord" and the way God reckons time... based on Adam's lifespan and His promise.
anyway I'm sure it's going to all get ripped apart, but I've been meditating on this for awhile, and how statements in the bible are based on earlier statements and many of the concepts originate in Genesis. "Declaring the End from the beginning"